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tu·ber·cle
(to͞o′bər-kəl, tyo͞o′-)n.
1. A small rounded projecting part or outgrowth, such as a wartlike excrescence on the roots of some leguminous plants or a knoblike process in the skin or on a bone.
2. Medicine A nodule or swelling, especially a mass of lymphocytes and epithelioid cells forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
[Latin tūberculum, diminutive of tūber, lump; see tuber.]
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tubercle
(ˈtjuːbəkəl) ortuberculum
n
1. (Botany) any small rounded nodule or elevation, esp on the skin, on a bone, or on a plant
2. (Pathology) any small rounded pathological lesion of the tissues, esp one characteristic of tuberculosis
[C16: from Latin tūberculum a little swelling, diminutive of tuber]
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tu•ber•cle
(ˈtu bər kəl, ˈtyu-)n.
1. a small rounded projection or excrescence, as on a bone or on the surface of the body.
2.
a. a small, firm, rounded nodule or swelling.
b. such a swelling as the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
3. a tuberlike swelling or nodule on a plant.
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tu·ber·cle
(to͞o′bər-kəl) A small rounded projection or swelling, as on the roots of legumes or on skin or a bone.
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Noun | 1. | tubercle - a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis lesion - any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part |
2. | tubercle - small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant plant process, enation - a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ | |
3. | tubercle - a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament deltoid eminence, deltoid tuberosity - a bump on the outside of the humerus where the deltoid muscle attaches |
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tu·ber·cle
n. tubérculo.
1. nódulo pequeño;
2. pequeña prominencia de un hueso;
3. lesión producida por el bacilo de la tuberculosis.
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